Packaging Rust for Fedora

Posted Oct 29, 2022 17:51 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Packaging Rust for Fedora by pizza
Parent article: Packaging Rust for Fedora

> Apple requires developers to constantly stay on the bleeding edge with tools and platform releases, at the risk of having their stuff summarily booted from the App Store.

Now you are moving the goalposts. Have you ever see that letter which Apple sends if you don't rush to use newest and greatest features? I'll include it here, it's not long:

> This app has not been updated for a significant amount of time and is scheduled to be removed from sale in 30 days. No action is required for the app to remain available to users who have already downloaded the app.

You can keep this app available for new users to discover and download from the App Storey submitting an update for review within 30 days.

If no update is submitted within 30 days, the app will be removed from sale.

Yes, it's a problem for developers, too. But that doesn't happen with macOS (since you can “sideload” apps there) and even on iOS it very explicitly tells that no action is required for the app to remain available to users who have already downloaded the app.

Yes, very annoying, but… it's policy, not technical issue. And it very explicitly doesn't affect your ability to taking an existing binary with the expectation of it working on a newer release of the platform/operating system.

> One can make a reasonable argument that this is actually a good thing for the overall platform health, but forward compatible it is not, and it's rather specious to decry Linux for this but praise Apple for the same.

That's very strange reading of what I wrote:

> Thus no… while Linux distros are, slowly, becoming more developer and user friendly and Apple becomes more developer and user hostile… they haven't swapped places yet.

It's quite obvious that Apple becomes steadily worse (and risks very real lawsuits and other legal actions because of what they are doing). But it's still better than what Linux distributions doing, objectively speaking.